What are the responsibilities and job description for the Executive Producer - Digital position at KRGV?
KRGV-TV, the ABC affiliate in the beautiful Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, is currently seeking : Digital Executive Producer.
KRGV-TV the ABC affiliate and the number one news station in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas has an immediate opening for a Digital Executive Producer for KRGV and our Spanish sister station, Noticias RGV. The right candidate should bring experience and passion to work with the digital and on-air teams to drive the gathering, creation, and distribution of engaging, compelling content across all digital and social media platforms.
This newsroom leader will work closely with the News Director, Assistant News Director and the newsroom management team to grow each station's audience and content-focused strategy.
As Digital Executive Producer, you are the digital team manager and a newsroom manager of both English and Spanish Content producers, so being bilingual in English and Spanish is required.
We are looking for someone with experience who can teach, coach, and mentor members of the digital team and the newsroom in best practices for writing, strong headline writing and producing content for digital and social platforms.
Our ideal candidate understands the newsroom workflow, breaking news on digital and linear platforms and that this is a key newsroom management position essential for the daily digital execution of the brand. AP Style writing is mandatory for this position.
This position is Full Time
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the digital teams (English / Spanish) to coordinate daily digital news stories and streaming daily news events with the Digital Content Producers
- Monitor stories, focus on accuracy and strong SEO in digital articles and social content through copy editing and closely working with the digital team to assure accuracy in published articles.
- Aggressively cover breaking news on digital / social platforms through breaking news alerts, live streams, social posts and digital articles.
- Working with the Spanish Digital Producers on content.
- The Digital Executive Producer will also assist with special project / sweeps promotional execution on social media as needed.
- Be a participant in editorial meetings, provide story ideas for reporters and producers. Also highly encouraged to generate and write stories for the web and share them with television platforms.
Job Requirements
KRGV (ABC) is located in the warm and beautiful Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. (Harlingen Weslaco Brownsville McAllen, Texas DMA #83) Privately owned by the Manship family since 1964, KRGV offers its employees excellent benefits and use of state-of-the-art technologies. Channel 5 News is a hard news brand that drives market leading ratings in a fast-growing area with significant breaking news.
Noticias RGV La Voz del Valle is the only Spanish News station that brings news coverage you can trust from the most experienced news team in the Valley.
KRGV-TV does not discriminate in its employment and personnel practices because of a persons race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status. The Federal Communications Commission specifically prohibits discriminatory employment practices.
Informing you and your organization of the above employment opportunity is an affirmative action on our part to actively seek qualified minorities and women for our staff vacancies. Through your assistance, we want to ensure that our employment opportunities are made known to members of minority groups and to women.
KRGV-TV is a drug-free and smoke-free workplace.
If you are qualified for the above vacancy send resume to Elizabeth Gaona, Director of Human Resources, KRGV-TV, P.O. Box 5, Weslaco, Texas 78599 or email to egaona@krgv.com .